And Then....

So here's what's been happening:

1. Last month Jon and I went to St George with our friends and family (Brian, Tiff, Josh, Amber, Makaylee and Melissa) and it was so fun! I would put up pictures, but somehow we really don't have any good ones. You'll have to go to Amber or Tiff's blog to see those. :)

2. Last Saturday (2/28) Jon and I finally got to cash in on those Jazz tickets I got him for Christmas! It was so much fun! We gave two of the extras to my Mom and Dad (which worked out because they celebrated their 25 wedding anniversary last week! Congrats Mom and Dad, you guys are awesome!) and the other two we gave to Brian and Tiff for Brian's birthday, since the other half of Jon's Jazz ticket present was to bring a friend. Jon and I went out to eat before the game with my parents, then since we were early we checked out the little shops and watched the Jazz players practicing before the game. Jon was so starstruck by everything! He would tell me everything about every player, coach, announcer, TV personality, and ball boy that was out there! It was really fun, and I could tell that Jon enjoyed it! :)

3. My work finally started hiring again (Yay!) so I am FINALLY in a training class again! I like my job and I'm much happier being back in the classroom. Still looking around, but while I look at least I'm not miserable. :)

4. I'm having a couple of parties at my house over the next two weekends. Not the music fun and games type, but the jewelery and stuff type. If you didn't get an invite it's because I don't have your contact info, but if you'd like to come or hear more about it then let me know and you'll be invited.

5. Jon has been traveling to Ogden to train DIRECTV for the last 2 1/2 weeks, and he's also been working a morning shift, so we never get to see each other. :( But next week he's done and gets to come back to his old job and old schedule and old me. :) I'm excited, I've been completely spoiled in my marriage and have never had to work the opposite shift as him (except for small periods of time), so I've missed him. :)

6. And finally, Jon finally heard back from the Pharmacy school he applied to! We don't know if he's in yet or not, but they called to confirm his application and to request an updated transcript (he was still completing one class when he sent them in the first time). They couldn't tell him anything over the phone as far as what his chances of getting in are, but Jon said that they sounded optimistic and he has a really good feeling. Interviews will be happening next month, so Jon and I will probably have to go to Arizona for a few days, then he'll find out for sure in May. I can't wait to find out! We really hope that he gets into this school because it's an accelerated program so he'll be in school for 3 years and have a year of rotations after that, rather than 4 years and a year of rotations. It will be hard, but worth it in the end.

Anyway, that's the update on me and Jon. I'll keep you posted on the Pharmacy school thing - that's the most exciting piece of our lives! Well that's all. :)

25 Random Things

So, I haven't written anything for a while and I know that all of my posts are pretty - bleh - so here's another random "bleh" post so that at least I'm posting. I know, still no pictures, sorry I still don't have the internet. :(

Rules: read, enjoy, then have a merry day. OR the original Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. -- choose the rule you like best! :)


1. I hate strawberries - they look delicious and I want to eat them, but when I try to I end up gagging on them and can't stand the taste.

2. I hate seeing holes in things where in my mind they don't belong. Like when you're cooking pancakes, and the bubbles pop and don't fill in - it makes me twitch and sick to my stomach and I have to fill the holes back in before I flip the pancake over. Also if there is an air bubble in lotion, shampoo or conditioner, and I really had a hard time with gauged ears for a long time, but now I'm okay with them as long as there's an earing in them and they aren't just flopping around.

3. I have an addictive personality - I was addicted to Ibuprofen in high school for a while (I would actually get mad if I went to take on and couldn't find something that hurt!), and recently was addicted to Cherry Coke (that sweet elixur of life) and couldn't teach my training classes without a coke in my hand or I would start to stutter and couldn't make coherent sentences until I had another Cherry Coke.

4. I once played Yatzee on my computer for 4 hours (see number 3 in regards to addictive personalities!)

5. I've wanted to be a geneticist for a long time, but haven't gone to school for it. I might still, because I keep thinking about it

6. I have a list of baby names that I won't tell people because I don't want them to steal my names before I can use them - which is still a ways away. (I've already had to cross off 5 because people took them without knowing!)

7. I'm still terrified about growing up - even though I'm already married and own a house!

8. I like Britney Spears' music. I like to exercise to it.

9. I really have none of my own artistic talent on my own, but I am a fantastic copycat!

10. I've always wished that I could sing - if I could I would have done a lot more acting when I was younger and definitely would still be persuing that now.

11. I have no middle name.

12. I'm really terrified of people and meeting new people especially - weird considering where I work...

13. I once was so frustrated and angry that my face when completely numb.

14. Sometimes I still have fake interviews in my mirror for when I win my fake Oscars or when I'm on a fake talk show

15. When I'm home alone I usually sing about whatever I'm doing really loud so that it's not so silent (my life is sort of a musical) :)

16. The reason that I am terrified of heights is because I saw a guy at the circus fall off of the tightrope when I was really little. It's the only part of the circus I remember, but I saw him holding the rope with one hand, and then fall, but I didn't see him land. Then the ambulance came and got him, and I've been terrified ever since.

17. I hate odd numbers, but I'm trying to just get over it.

18. When I go fishing I sing songs to the fish to get them to bite my lure, and Jon makes fun of me for it but when I'm not there he misses it. :)

19. When I was younger I wanted to try being a vegetarian - I made it through 2 meals and got hungry.

20. I love road trips and sightseeing and have always just wanted to travel around Europe and see everything there is, and go to Egypt! I love ancient Egypt and actually wanted to be an archeologist when I was younger with my specialty in ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome and Greece.

21. Once, I was driving my cavelier and was on my way to my house so Jon could paint the bumper that he just fixed, and due to a little oversight before I left (Jon forgot to check the broken latch) I had my hood crash into my windshield going 65 mph on Bangerter Highway. Yeah, I freaked out a little, but am a huge advocate for the "Big Nasty" sunglasses (the ones that make you look like a bug but are kind of cute at the same time) because I had broken glass on my forehead and cheeks, but none in my eyes! :)

22. Yeah, that cavelier, named Monty, was cursed. His name is now El Diablo and he's someone elses problem now ever since he bumped into someone and got totalled.

23. My new car is totally sexy, and is named Bruce (after Bruce Wayne). I love my cute Mazda 3!

24. I have carpol tunnel in both wrists, tendanitis in my left shoulder, knees that act up with the weather changes, and I used to have back problems that would pinch my sciatic nerves.

25. The only thing I've ever broken was my nose, and that was 5 minutes before a performance in marching band and it hurt so bad to smile that I was crying the whole time I performed and afterwords it hurt to stop smiling. Good times. :)

Anyway, hope that wasn't too boring for you. :)

Work Shmerk

So, I'm probably just venting right now and will be fine tomorrow, but I'm finding that I'm getting more and more unhappy in my job. I thought that some time off would help, plus we're having a break from our classes so I thought that would be nice, but for some reason I'm really starting to hate it more and more every day. I can't go into a lot of specifics for proprietary purposes and what-not, but recently they had the Trainers take over the supervisor calls. I really didn't mind this too much; was there better things that I could have been doing during this time? Undoubtedly, but I understand the need and I was happy to help. But unlike on DIRECTV where I actually enjoyed taking supervisor calls, I really don't enjoy it here. With DIRECTV for example, if I didn't waive a fee or a charge then big deal - it's freaking TV! But with Bank of America, it really affects peoples lives. If I choose not to waive a fee because they're not profitable enough or whatever, then I'm affecting their income, their credit score, their debt, their lives, and I don't like that feeling. Today someone asked me if I truly believed what I was saying based on a policy, and I honestly couldn't answer. I tried, and I stuck to my guns about it because it was a policy, but I don't like the fact that I can impact somebody's life that much in a negative way. So anyway, I'll probably be over it in a few days, but in the meantime if anyone knows where I can find alternate employment I will gladly take some tips! ;)

Memories...

Hooray for a post with pictures!!! Here are some of the pictures that I was looking at. Now, I don't think I'll ever be as skinny as I was in, say, the picture right below here, but you can see that I have some motivation here. Anyway, enough of the sob story of me, here are some fun pictures that I found from high school and shortly after high school! :)

This is me and my friend Buckwheat (aka: Erik) at the Valentine's dance. We were ballroom dance champions, so here we are showing off our East Coast Swing. (Just as a side note, I couldn't really breath in this dress very well - it was a size 2! Aaah!)

This is me right after chopping my hair off my Senior year - just 1 week after Senior pictures. I cut 15 inches off and put in Brown low-lights, so it was a pretty big change! It looked great as long as I straightened it though! :)

This picture is the one that got me thinking in my last post. This was taken when I was dating Jon. Yeah, I looked gooooood. :)

I also found a few pictures from Colorguard! I know I have more somewhere, so I need to get those on here, but those of you that knew me in high school will like it. :)

Here's some pictures from when I did the Dairy Princess Pageant. For those who don't know the story, me and my friend Mandy entered as a joke, then I won and she was named 1st attendant! I felt bad because there were some girls who took it very seriously and were crying! I really honestly didn't care if I won or lost, and actually I wasn't expecting to win anything. Oh well, that's life.

Here's some random High School pictures. Just fun.

And here's just some random others - mostly from just after high school, including pictures from my Network Marketing days (NEVER again!), me just being goofy, and me and my roommate when we were bored and living in Bear Lake. We called our late night adventures "Operation Nightmare". It was awesome! :)

Anyway, just wanted to reminisce about the past for a bit and share it with you. Also, if any of my high school friends happen to have more pic's that I might like, then you should totally sent them to me! I'm realizing that a lot of my pictures are missing or gone or who knows - the could be lost in Narnia for all I know - so if you guys have any I would appreciate it! Just email it to me and if you don't know my email then let me know, because my blog isn't private so I'd rather not post it on here. ;) Anyway, enjoy!

Stupid New Year's Resolution

So, I'm not a fan of New Year's Resolutions. I've never been able to keep to them, and I don't think that anyone else really does either. Even when I decided that I was going to go a year without a boyfriend and just date around, Jon had to come around and ruin that one! (Okay, I don't mind that I didn't keep that resolution!) But the whole idea of a New Year's Resolution just always makes me cringe because I know that I'll be all gung-ho about it in the beginning and then I'll slowly just forget about it. Even so, I'm trying, yet again, to make a resolution that I can stick to.

I was going through some older pictures last night, and found some from when I met Jon. Let's just say that I was a lot thinner then. The worst part is, in some of them I was in my old bikini and I looked good. Like, really good. Then I looked in the mirror and realized that 30 pounds later, I didn't look that good anymore. The bigger problem, is that most of this weight gain has occurred in the last 6 - 9 months.Now this isn't a post so that people can leave comments saying, "Whatever you look great!" or "You don't need to lose weight!" (and p.s. Laura, you're not allowed to compare our weights because you're pregnant *wink*) because that's relative to the person looking. For me, I'm not happy with my body right now, and that's really the only opinion that matters. I really have no excuse for these extra pounds - I don't have any kids, I'm not so busy that I don't have time to work out, I really have no excuse. So, this year my "resolution" or just my goal is to lose the weight that I've gained since being married, and to look hot in my bathing suit again.

So yeah, I'm mostly just ranting and complaining in this blog, I know, but I thought that maybe if I put it in writing, then I would follow through. I may even post the picture that got me all fired up about this, just so when I look at my blog I can remember my goal. We'll see though. Anyway, if anyone would like to lose weight with me then let me know and we'll do it! :)